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Frost Death Knight WeakAuras, Macros & Addons - The War Within 11.0.2
By khazakdk
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2024/08/22
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WeakAuras, Macros, and Addons provide many quality-of-life improvements in WoW, allowing players to improve how information is displayed in-game or automate decision-making to optimize performance.
In this guide, we will go over useful Frost Death Knight macros for , explain how to make your own macros, and cover some of the best Frost Death Knight addons for both hardcore raiders and general players alike. Whether you're looking for specialized Frost Death Knight macros to help you gain a competitive edge or creating a custom user interface to expand your view of the game world, this page will help get you started with some of the most popular choices within the Frost Death Knight community.
WeakAuras2 is an extremely flexible WoW addon, with near limitless creative potential and control, capable of modifying or replacing nearly any part of the user interface.
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Recommended Frost Death Knight WeakAuras
WeakAuras2 is an extremely flexible addon, with near limitless creative potential and control, capable of replicating or replacing nearly any part of the user interface. While designed as a simple way to create alerts to remind you of buffs, debuff, or encounter mechanics, it has become an integral part of World of Warcraft user interface customization, allowing players to replace their traditional action bars, create and share complex raid information, track other players spell casts, and much, much more. In this section, we've highlighted some of the best WeakAuras for Frost Death Knight, although there are so many different options available that we
highly
recommend visiting
wago.io
to find one that best suits your needs.
Weak Aura Links
I recommend creating your own layout to track different buffs and cooldowns. Here is a helpful guide if you haven't tried it out yourself before. If you want to look at what other people have done,
wago.io
has a great selection of WeakAuras that people have created.
Name & Link
Example
Description
Wheva's Frost Pack
A compact layout with easy tracking made by Wheva
Killing Machine Stack Counter
A simple stack counter to track Killing Machine procs.
Double Killing Machine Spell Overaly
An alternative way of tracking Killing Machine, this WeakAura shows another copy of the Killing Machine spell alert when you have two stacks.
Breath of Sindragosa Tracker
A tracker for Breath of Sindragosa that shows elapsed duration and ticks remaining.
Razorice Glow for Plater
A Plater mod that glows the Razorice debuff when the target has 5 stacks.
Blizzard Layout
You can now share your Blizzard layout directly via an in-game copy function. If you want a preset to get started with, you can use the following import string:
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Recommended Frost Death Knight Macros
Macros are simple, in-game tools which allow you to sequence spells together, create custom names and icons, cast different abilities depending on whether the target is friendly or hostile, define targeting conditions, and much, much more.
For more information on creating macros, including full lists of conditionals, modifiers, and other command customizations you can use, check out our full Macros guide.
These can be created in the Macros window by simply copy and pasting the coded code into the creator. These will perform specific actions above the regular button presses that can alleviate some targeting issues or ability problems by automating part of the ability:
When playing
Obliteration
, it's essential to be 100% GCD efficient within
Pillar of Frost
to maximize GCDs spent during the buff. To do this, we want to trigger the first proc of
Killing Machine
immediately after we use
Pillar of Frost
. Use the macros below to avoid delays between
Pillar of Frost
and the GCD ability. We can initiate our window with four different spells depending on the situation and thus use one macro for each.
Howling Blast
/cast Pillar of Frost
/cast Howling Blast
/cast Raise Dead
Frost Strike
/cast Pillar of Frost
/cast Frost Strike
/cast Raise Dead
Glacial Advance
/cast Pillar of Frost
/cast Glacial Advance
/cast Raise Dead
Soul Reaper
/cast Pillar of Frost
/cast Soul Reaper
/cast Raise Dead
Breath of Sindragosa
Breath of Sindragosa
is a central part of any build with the talent equipped. If you don't use it properly, you will lose out on a huge amount of DPS. It is therefore quite unfortunate how easy it is to cancel this ability accidentally! To help us prevent this, we use the following macro which makes it impossible to cancel the ability:
#showtooltip Breath of Sindragosa
/cast !Breath of Sindragosa
It's also a good idea to bake in multiple off-gcd spells and abilities with this macro:
#showtooltip Breath of Sindragosa
/cast Pillar of Frost
/cast Raise Dead
/use 13
/cast !Breath of Sindragosa
Death Grip
Controlling
Death Grip
is can be very useful in many situations. More specifically, when it can be difficult to select your target, or when you don't want to switch back and forth to just cast
Death Grip
. This Macro casts
Death Grip
at the target you have your mouse over.
#showtooltip Death Grip
/cast Death Grip; Death Grip
If you want to cast it on your focus target:
#showtooltip Death Grip
/cast Death Grip; Death Grip
Mouseover Macros
I've already recommended one of these Macros but they are all useful. Excellent for when you don't want to switch the selected target, but still use an ability on something else. These Macros are so smart that they will use it on your main target if you don't mouseover a different one.
Mind Freeze
#showtooltip Mind Freeze
/cast Mind Freeze; Mind Freeze
Asphyxiate
#showtooltip Asphyxiate
/cast Asphyxiate; Asphyxiate
Raise Ally
#showtooltip Raise Ally
/cast Raise Ally
Control Undead
Sometimes, you will keep a control undead mob for a long time in a dungeon. This macro makes it easy to dismiss the pet and instantly control it again!
#showtooltip Control Undead
/target pet
/script PetDismiss()
/cast Control Undead
Recommended Frost Death Knight Addons
Addons are powerful tools that can customize your gameplay experience, ranging from graphical overlays, replacement action bars, and unit/raid frames to performance enhancements such as rotation helping spell reminders, buff/debuff tracking, popup reminders, and boss warnings. Here are some of the highly recommended and commonly used Frost Death Knight addons, which are certainly not required to play, but can go a long way toward increasing the information available to you in combat or simply make for a more pleasant viewing experience.
Unlike Macros, managing Addons is done outside of the game, but our How to Install and Maintain Addons Guide will take you step-by-step through the process.
User Interface
ElvUI - Very popular all-in-one UI overhaul.
Bartender4
- Highly customizable action bars which can be moved and organized however you like.
Chatter
- Replacement chatbox addon, with custom themes, fonts, and functions.
Deja Character Stats
- Adds more stats to the character panel, with customizable filters.
Elkano's Buff Bars
- Replaces the standard buff/debuff icons with ordered lists, including names and bar graph-style durations.
Mapster
- World map enhancement which adds coordinates, icons, and more.
Move Anything
- Allows any part of the default UI to be moved around.
OPie
- A specialized radial menu style actionbar, very useful for condensing less frequently used spells that don't always need to be on your main bars.
OmniCD
- A specialized addon to track your group members' cooldowns.
Sexy Map
- Makes your minimap sexy!
Shadowed Unit Frames
- Customizable player, target, and raid unit frames.
ThreatPlates
- Customize nameplates styles and add various information including buffs, debuffs and casting indicators
World Quest List
- Attaches a sortable list of active world quest lists, filtered by zone, to the edge of your map.
Combat and informational
BigWigs Bossmods - A lightweight, open source raid encounter addon.
Deadly Boss Mods - A more robust encounter addon for dungeons, raids, PvP, and more.
Details - A highly customizable damage and healing meter
Method Raid Tools
- Modular addon containing raid coordination tools for raid leaders and officers.
SimulationCraft - Simplifies simming your character by generating an in-game script to paste into SimCraft or Raidbots
WeakAuras2 - A very powerful addon that can display a massive variety of information including procs, casting indicators and raid boss warnings.
Of course, these recommendations are not the only useful addons out there; there are hundreds to choose from, of every type imaginable. If you're looking for something a little different, search through
Curseforge
or
WoWInterface
to find the right Frost Death Knight addons for you.
About the Author
This guide is written by Khazak, a Death Knight player since 5.4. Besides writing guides, I am active in
Acherus, the Death Knight class Discord
, and a maintainer on SimulationCraft, contributing code implementations and APLs for Frost Death Knights. I raid in Agency on Zul'jin-US and sometimes stream raids on
Twitch
. I am always happy to take questions or comments about the guide through Discord.
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